this almost went up my taipipe.

i was setting up to troll north out of edgewater this am, and kept seeing something behind me out of the corner of my eye. i thaught it was just the downtown buildings? it turned out to be this freighter, and not even a warning horn?

We almost had this in ours... scary! Saw them coming right at us from a distance... and as they got closer realized they were not budging for our little boat - we were anchored. We must have blended into the brown water in our brown boat. We popped anchor and then got out of the way and took this photo.

Scared the poop out of me!

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N.S. do you think underway would be considered as working? you would think ,that just like a train, he would give a toot when approaching a small vessel from behind, glad i did not make any quick moves his way. i have seen them run thru perch packs and trollers too.

Thirty some years ago, I was out of Catawba, when some un-forecasted fog rolled in. We were bobbing and weaving just above idle(lights on, and an occasional blast from our boat horn) when we hear a BLAST from a freighter. The sound came from up in the air! It had to be only 30 or so yards from us and we could see a huge white wall as it moved past. I gassed the engine and made a retreat at 90 degrees to the ship to avoid any possible huge, swamping wake being thrown in our direction. Scared the heck out of us. I hate fog on lakes-it's really... erie!!

i was setting up to troll north out of edgewater this am, and kept seeing something behind me out of the corner of my eye. i thaught it was just the downtown buildings? it turned out to be this freighter, and not even a warning horn?

I see them going up and down the Black River all the time. It isn't the wake that is the problem because they are going so slow it is the turbulence they create. I swear I see the bottom come up and roll over 2-3 times after they go by.

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